Knowledge Quotes

I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

People tell me it's a sinTo know and feel too much within

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

THERE is no frigate like a book/ To take us lands away...

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

There is no Frigate like a book.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

Even subjects that are known are known only to a few

A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Come on then, I will swear to study soTo know the thing I am forbid to know- Berowne

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

Science is learning to control everything but man.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.

The more man learns, the less he knows.

Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.

A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach it in a day.

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

Knowledge itself is power

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

Self-knowledge is power.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?

sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

...you got tuh go there tuh know there.

You have to learn to recognize your own depths.

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?